Wyniki wyszukiwania - BazTech

1

World Heritage as a balancing act: Experiences from a medium-sized World Heritage City in Bavaria

Alberth Patricia

Ochrona Dziedzictwa Kulturowego

|

2023

|

Nr 17

105--113

EN

The Town of Bamberg has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1993 due to its medieval urban layout and its well preserved buildings mostly from the Middle Ages and the Baroque era. A large part of the historic streets and squares still exist. They make up an essential part of the city’s public space. Yet, the demands placed on this public space are currently undergoing some changes - especially under the influence of climate change and the Corona pandemic. In line with the UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape, Bamberg’s urban fabric is based on the historical stratification of cultural and natural values and features. The urban fabric relates to the landscape in which it is embedded – river Regnitz and the surrounding hills – as well as to religious traditions, trade activities and building customs. The aim of this paper is to analyze recent developments in the planning and use of public spaces in Bamberg taking into account current methods of participation. In 2020, the City of Bamberg was awarded the contract by the Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Construction and Home Affairs, for a project period of seven years as part of the "Smart Cities Model Projects" funding programme to promote digitalization at all levels of urban development. Accordingly, the contribution of digital technologies to urban planning and of citizen participation will receive special attention.

2

The 50 years of the World Heritage Convention in Spain: implementation, effects, and challenges

Luengo Mónica, Martínez Celia, Casanovas Xavier, Maraña Maider, Tresserras Jordi, Lafuente Cristina

Ochrona Dziedzictwa Kulturowego

|

2023

|

Nr 17

55--65

EN

Due to the diversity of characteristics and the high number of World Heritage sites (49) inscribed by Spain, this country and its ICOMOS National Committee have a long experience in the application of the World Heritage Convention throughout these 50 years. The World Heritage Working Group of the Spanish National Committee of ICOMOS has therefore carried out an analysis of these sites, their history and evolution, typology, and state of conservation with the final goal of assessing their current heritage situation and the contribution of the Convention to the conservation of the Spanish natural and cultural heritage. We also aim to reflect on how Spain has contributed to the World Heritage Convention during these five decades and about the most important challenges that our country needs to confront in order to continue complying with the spirit of the Convention and the principles of its Operational Guidelines. To conduct this analysis, we first deal with the background of the ratification of the Convention in Spain, provide an overview of its application, and describe the evolution of the Spanish Tentative List. Second, we deepen on the Spanish nominations and the typologies of the Spanish properties inscribed on the World Heritage List. Thirdly, we focus on the preservation of the Spanish World Heritage sites basing on the State of Conservation Reports (SOCs) that affect them and the results of the first survey on these properties’ conservation, management and presentation carried out by the Heritage Observatory of ICOMOS Spain. This allows us to share some conclusions about the most positive effects of the Convention for the protection of Spanish cultural heritage and the most important challenges for its future development, many of which can be extended at least to the European context.

3

Jurassic Global Stratotype Section and Points (GSSPs)-a potential serial World Heritage Site?

Page K., Melendez G., Henriques M.

Volumina Jurassica

|

2008

|

Vol. 6, no. 1

155-162

EN

The Operation Guidelines for the UNESCO World Heritage Convention state that proposed areas should: “..be outstanding examples representing major stages of Earth’s history, including the record of life”, “..contain all or most of the key interrelated and interdependent elements in their natural relationships”, “..have a management plan…” and “..have adequate long-term legislative, regulatory, institutional or traditional protection..”. By definition, Global Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSPs) should satisfy all these criteria, although in isolation, the proposal of any single GSSP is unlikely to succeed, however, as an individual site may lack a broader context. Nevertheless, combining a suite of GSSPs sites for a System within a ‘serial’ World Heritage site proposal would satisfy such a concern and could be an ultimate goal for the International Subcommission on Jurassic Stratigraphy.

4

Jurassic Global Stratotype Section and Points (GSSPs) – a potential serial World Heritage Site?

Page K., Melendez G., Henriques M.

Volumina Jurassica

|

2006

|

Vol. 4, no. 1

253-253

EN

The Operation Guidelines for the World Heritage Convention include the following criteria for the selection of natural heritage sites, which states that they should: "…be outstanding examples representing major stages of Earth's history, including the record of life, significant ongoing geological processes in the development of land forms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features" [Criteria a (i)]; "The sites listed in a (i) should contain all or most of the key interrelated and interdependent elements in their natural relationships…" [Criteria b (i)]; "The site described in paragraph (a) should have a management plan…" [Criteria b (v)]; "A site described in paragraph (a) should have adequate long-term legislative, regulatory, institutional or traditional protection..." [Criteria b (vi)]. Global Stratotype Sections and Points (GSSPs) represent, by definition, the most stratigraphically complete and globally important stage-boundary sections known. They therefore fully satisfy the World Heritage criterion a (i). Crucially, their identification and ratification is regulated globally by the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) which also advises UNESCO on the selection of World Heritage Sites for geological features - such a ratification can be taken as confirmation of global significance in more than just a technical or scientific sense. In addition, as part of the GSSP selection process aspects of the site's conservation status and safeguard for future study are also taken into consideration, Criterion b (vi) and be satisfied, if not b (v) as well. The proposal of any single GSSP in isolation as a World Heritage site is unlikely succeed, however, as individually such sites may lack a broader context. Combining a suite of GSSPs sites in a "serial" World Heritage site proposal - a well established approach in other contexts - is however, conceptually much more likely to succeed. In particular a proposal incorporating all the applicable GSSPs for a single system could certainly satisfy Criterion b (i), especially as all key interrelated and interdependent elements would then be included, i.e. all component stages of that system. Such a proposal could be an ultimately goal for the ISJS, as a celebration of decades of intensive work by many colleagues from many countries. Such a project would require a high degree of international agreement and already five countries are implicated in the process: Portugal, Spain, England, Scotland and France. Nevertheless, the close working relationships between specialists in different nations established through the Working Groups of the Subcommission can offer a marvellous opportunity for such collaboration.